A London-decorated Paris plate from the 'Nelson Set Dessert Service', circa 1802
The brightly-painted oak leaf border reserving two panels with blue enamel ribbons inscribed in gold 'Nelson San Josef' and 'Nelson 14th February', the centre with the full arms and insignia of Nelson printed in outline and fully enamelled, 22.3cm diam
Footnotes:
Provenance
Vice-Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson
Emma, Lady Hamilton

In the Trickey inventory of Emma Hamilton's possessions, circa 1813, the dessert service from the Nelson Set was listed as having four oval and four round dishes along with one centre dish and twenty six plates. This is a surprisingly large number of plates compared with the number of dishes. It is of course possible that whoever it was who compiled the inventory had mixed up a few of the plates and even a couple of the dishes from the matching breakfast service of Coalport porcelain.

A similar Paris plate from the Nelson Service is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no.3313-1901. Two other plates are in the National Maritime Museum, nos.4551/4552. Another plate was sold by Sotheby's, 5 October 2005, lot 90.

For more information on the 'Nelson Set Dessert Service' please see lot 49 in this sale.